Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This pisses me off so much. The only reason I subscribed to the HL was to get away from AI content. Now, I’m not only being served the same slop I was before, but I pay for the privilege too. This timeline is the worst. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Welp thats’s it. It’s officially rapture time.kentucky.com‘Another great light gone out.’ Kentucky author, activist Wendell Berry dies at 92.Wendell Berry championed small farms, agrarianism and conservation for decades. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Glad I’m not the only one who’s starting to hear “terrorist” every time someone says “settler.” It’s so jarring because once upon a time I believed in the promise of Israel. Still, no amount of “liberal values” excuses genocide or ethnic cleansing.nytimes.comThese Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b... 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 28/07/2026As one of those scientists using AI to study cancer, I co-sign this. In fact, the generative AI boom has put such strain on the computing market, that our work has become extremely difficult. We’ve needed to replace a crucial workstation for over a year, but the hardware is impossible to come by. 010
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Beshear IS doing something. He’s allowing the seat to remain functionally vacant, a good thing for Democrats. The idea that he can magically insert a Dem, either in time for it to matter and without getting himself impeached, is pure fantasy. We’ll never win if we keep eating our own. 14916
Reposted by Erika SkaggsElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/07/2026Tech executives have warned AI could funnel enormous wealth to a handful of people and create a “permanent underclass.” Why should Big Tech get all the profits while we pay the costs? It’s time to tax AI. 3443410905
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 04/07/2026He violated an EPO, strangled her, held her captive while illegally in possession of a gun, but she’s the criminal? Why are the “rights” of abusers the only ones our courts seem to care about?kentucky.comShe pleaded guilty in a fatal Lexington shooting. Now she must prove she’s an abuse victimBefore the shooting, evidence shows the suspect was strangled and being held against her will in a Lexington apartment by the man she fatally shot. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I saw it because fuck the patriarchy. I loved it because it’s a super good time. Pun intended. Beat the heat. Go see Supergirl! 010
Reposted by Erika SkaggsRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...syracuse.comAnother ICE threat visit: How did agents track down this critic on his vacation?The ICE agents who threatened a Syracuse poll worker for an Instagram post warned a Rochester man in an unsettling way. 49823364
Reposted by Erika SkaggsLauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I am proud to introduce the EV Charging Accessibility Act because no one should be left behind as we build a cleaner future. Right now, EV chargers are too tall and too heavy for seniors and people with disabilities – this is the first step in ensuring accessibility for everyone. 1217069
Reposted by Erika SkaggsAlp Beck @alpbeck.com · 16/06/2026Your #car is spying on you—and you can't always opt out. #privacy #security #tech #travel via @howtogeek.bsky.social www.howtogeek.com/car-spying-o...howtogeek.comYour car is spying on you just like a smart TV—and you can't always opt outThe data your car generates is not just sitting on a server somewhere. It is being packaged and sold without your knowledge. 195
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Here’s an unexpected upside of AI - this weekend I got so sick of the algorithm serving me slop that, for the first time in my adult life, I subscribed to both the @nytimes.com and my local paper. Long live the 4th estate! 021
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Imagine being so insecure that even the memory of your predecessor is too hot to handle. #pettylittleb*tchcnn.comTrump moves Obama, Bush portraits to hidden stairwell | CNN PoliticsOnce a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the years-long tensions ... 010
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 24/07/2025So uh…What’s the over/under on this witch surviving the year?cnn.comHouse Oversight Committee subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell for deposition | CNN PoliticsHouse Oversight Chair James Comer has subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition. 010
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Hey CBS- just so you know, Colbert’s last day with you will be mine also- No Paramount+, no live broadcasts, no streaming. I won’t even watch your shows on other platforms. You will never make another dime off me. No amount of Star Trek and Young Sheldon is worth this fascist BS.sign.moveon.orgKeep Colbert on Air!We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t... 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ - The Guardian 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Israel furious as France shuts four weapons stands after refusal to remove offensive weaponry “If you can’t beat them in technology, just hide them right? That’s what it is because there’s no other explanation.” Ummmm, I can think of a few other explanations.🤔 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 10/06/2025In case you thought this was just an issue for “costal elites.” -This kid is a legal, documented immigrant, who was arrested without a warrant and being held WITHOUT CHARGES, on a $15,000 bond. If it can happen to him, it can happen to you. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Apparently, I assassinated quite a few pot roasts and onion rings in my youth. 000
Reposted by Erika SkaggsKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/04/202520 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were … 1410199288867
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 18/04/2025If the law doesn’t protect them, then it doesn’t protect you either. It’s that simple. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Someone check the temperature in hell. Rand Paul and I are actually agreeing on something. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Anybody else got whiplash reading all these tariff headlines? 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Cancelling $400 in federal grants and contracts has nothing to do with anti-semitism. Trump knows that universities are a powerhouse when it comes to anti-government protests, and this is a clear threat to any school that stands by its students’ 1st amendment rights in the fight to come. #Columbia 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Electorate- “Do something about the planes FALLING OUT OF THE SKY!” President Elump- “I know! 💡Let’s fire all the air traffic controllers.” #FAA 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 16/02/2025“Educational institutions have toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon “systemic and structural racism”and advanced discriminatory policies and practices.” Excuse me- In what way was the transatlantic slave trade not discriminatory? 000
Reposted by Erika SkaggsMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances? 2610355017707
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 14/02/2025“Shut your mouth” and “You’re not President.” There’s a reason this kid thinks he can talk to Trump that way, and it’s not just “boys will be boys.” It’s because he’s seen the way his father treats Trump behind closed doors, and he’s just aping daddy. Dollars to donuts-Elon has something on Trump.newsweek.comWhat did Elon Musk's son say to Trump? White House video goes viralA number of social media users believe Elon Musk's 4-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii, told President Donald Trump, "Shut your mouth." 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Read this, then call your Senators and Representatives. They have the power to stop this, but we have to give them both a reason to act and political cover when they do. A flood of angry constituents calls provides both. 🧪 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 10/02/2025One of the best sessions I attended at the 2023 ACS meeting in San Francisco was about making lab spaces accessible for everybody and every BODY. What message does this send to our differently able students, that we don’t want them anymore? You should be ashamed of yourself ACS! 🧪 020
Reposted by Erika Skaggskinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Call your reps to save NIH & NSF research funding 🧪 04117
Reposted by Erika SkaggsCNN @cnn.com · 08/02/2025The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said could be devastating for the nation’s position as a research leader.cnn.comResearchers decry ‘disastrously bad idea’ as NIH slashes payments for research infrastructure | CNNThe US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said could ... 37332109
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Long story short- I hope you weren’t counting on having any new cancer treatments any time soon. My lab researches novel therapies for lung cancer, but we can’t do that if there’s no money to keep the lights on. Now we see the real Project 2025- Make Americans Dead Again!politico.comNIH slashes funding for research overhead, leaving universities scramblingIt’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to the American higher education system, which Republicans for years have blasted for churning out liberal-minded graduates. 000
Reposted by Erika SkaggsMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.reporttheblue.reportThe Blue ReportThe top links on Bluesky over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. 1196299687363
Reposted by Erika SkaggsLawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Rally At Treasurylawyersgunsmoneyblog.comRally At Treasury - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyA selection of speakers (thanks to Aaron Rupar, but there are others at Bluesky) at this afternoon’s rally at the US Treasury. 054
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I guess DOGE thinks it’s inefficient to have sick people. So what now? They all just get sacrificed on the altar of budget cuts? 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Paying more for imports and threatening one of our best trade relationships. Is Kentucky great yet? 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 02/02/2025CliffsNotes version- A congressionally established agency goes dark after refusing to turn over CLASSIFIED documents to agents of unlawful organization who didn’t even have proper clearance to view them. It would have been a crime to turn over said documents.apnews.comUSAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials sayThe Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material to Elon Musk’s government-insp... 030
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley: It “doesn’t seem that remarkable to me. Maybe I’m missing something.” Missing something? Yeah you’re missing something Mr. Hawley, like a heart and a conscience and more than a few brain cells. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 28/01/2025And the chaos returns. These fools can’t find their backside with both hands and a map. 000
Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Get in loser we’re posting lock screens. (Foggy fall in the Red River Gorge) 010
Reposted by Erika SkaggsGwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 25/01/2025BOOK SALE KLAXONS! This is the first time THE FRAME-UP aka the heist book has been discounted, and I personally think it's my best book so go get this steal (you see what I did there): www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C7... 22712
Reposted by Erika SkaggsRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025"This is like a meteor just crashed into all of our cancer centers and research areas..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comHealth researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communicationsThe halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher. 1902388718
Reposted by Erika SkaggsJackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at jmogensen@motherjones.com or DM for Signal 5140721218
Reposted by Erika SkaggsDeport Elon 📎 @ledrapeaunoir.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Everyone impacted should call their reps, if they are republicans even better. Go to www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... and tell them how many jobs they just jeopardized. Then ask them if they are for Americans losing jobs?unitedformedicalresearch.orgNIH In Your State - United For Medical ResearchSelect a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America. 0125
